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PULLMANS SIDE.
BIS COMPANY HAS BEEN IOSINS
MONEY, HE SAYS.
HAS A PAYROLL OF $7,000 A DAY.
That in, in Flush Time* When the Works are
Busy—Depression Cut Off the Orders.
Cars Built at a Loss to Give Work.
Chicago, July 11.—Mayor Hopkins, Mayor
Pingree, of Detroit, and Erskine M. Phelps,
of Chicago, had a two hours’ conference
this evening with Vice President Wickes,
General Solicitor Runnels and General Man
ager Brown, of the Pullman company, at
Mr. Wickes’s office.
Mayor Pingree’s telegrams urging arbitra
tion were presented and strongly urged.
The conference was held behind closed
oooi s, the Pullman officials promising to give
a verbatim report of it to the newspapers.
The report was given out by them as fol
lows:
“Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, accompanied
Mayor Hopkins and Mr. Erskine M.
Phelps, of Chicago, called at the Pullman
offices and submitted to the officials of the
Pullman company the telegrams Mayor Pin
gree had received from the mayors of other
cities upon the question of arbitration.
Thereupon followed a protracted friendly
discussion of the matter, in which the of
ficers of the Pullman company set out fully
their reasons for believing that the question
at issue, which was simply the reopening
of the works and carrying them on at a
ruinous loss, was not a proper subjeot for
arbitration..”
Mayor Hopkins, after the conference,
would only say: “We are Just where we were
before we welt. Let them do the talking.
At labor headquarters tonight it was an
nounced that the following unions had
struck: Painters, 1.000 men; machine wood
workers, 500; planing mill hands. 800; silver
gilders, 340; carriage and wagon makers,
700. It is expected, the labor men say, that
1,000 moulders will strike in the morning.
The Pullman side of the case was present
ed about as follows:
First of the Trouble.
In the first week of May last there were
employed in the car manufacturing depart
ment at Pullman, 111., about 6,100 persons.
May 7th a committee of workmen had an
interview, by arrangement, with Mr.
Wickes, the vice president, at which the
principal subject of discussion related to
wages, but minor grievances as to shop ad
ministration were also presented, and it
was agreed that another meeting should
be held May 9th, at which all the griev
ances should be presented in ■writing. The
second meeting was held. As to the com
plaints' on all matters, except wages, it was
arranged that a formal and thorough inves
tigation should be made by Mr. Wickes, to
be begun the next day, and full redress was
assured to the committee as to all com
plaints proved to be well founded.
The absolute necessity of the last reduc
tion in wages, under the existing condition
of the business of car manufacturing, had
been explained to the committee, and they
were insisting upon a restoration of the
wage scale of the first half of 1893, when
Mr. Pullman entered the room and ad
dressed the committee, speaking in sub
stance as follows:
“At the commencement of the very seri
ous depression last year we were employing
at Pullman 5,816 men, and paying out in
wages there $395,000 a month. Negotia
tions with intending purchasers of railway
equipment that were then pending for new
work were stopped by them, orders al
ready given by others were canceled, and
we were obliged to lay off, as you are
aware, a large number of men in every de
partment, so that by November 1, 1893, there
were only about 2,000 men in all depart
ments, or about one-third of the normal
number. I realized the necessity for the
most strenous exertions to procure work
immediately without which there would
be gr--.it embarrassment, not only to the
employes and their families at Pullman,
but also to those living in the immediate
vicinity, including between 700 and 800 em
ployes who had purchased homes, and to
wnom employment was actually necessary
to enable them t > complete their payments.
He Secured Work.
1 canvassed the matter thoroughly with
the manager of the works and instructed
aim to cause the men to be assured that
the company would do everything in its
power to meet the competition which was
sure to occur because of the great number
of large car manutacturers that were in
tlie same condition and were exceedingly
anxious to keep their men employed. I
knew that if there was any work to be
let, bids lor it would be let upon a much
tow I : t tan < vet bft re.” (Nott The
selling prices of passenger, baggage, box,
refrigerator and street care have in the
last two years fallen by percentages vary
ing in the separate classes from 17 to 28,
the average reduction, taking the five
Classes tog. tiler being 24 per out.) “The
result of this discussion was a revision in
peice work «prices, which, in the absence
of any information to the contrary, 1 sup
posed to be acceptable to the men under
the eireumstaiio s. Under these conditions,
and with lower prices upon all materials, I
personally 'undertook the work of the
letting of ears, and by making lower bids
than other manufacturers I secured work
enough to gradually increase our force from
2,21-0 to 4,200, the number employed accord
ing to the April payroll in ali capacities at
Pullman.
“This result his not been accomplished
merely by reduction in wages, but the com
pany has borne its full share by eliminating
from its estimates the use of capital and
machinery, ami in many cases going even
below that and taking work at considerable
loss, notably the thirty-live Long Island
cars, which was the first large order of pas-
B. nger cars let since the great depression,
and which was sought for by practically all
the leading carbuilders in the country. My
anxiety to secure that order, so as to put
as many men at work as possible, was such
that I put in a bid at more than S3OO per
car less than the actual cost to the com
pany. The 300 stock cars built for the
Northwestern road and the 250 refrigerator
cars now under construction for the same
company will result in a loss of at least
sl2 per car, and twenty-five cars just built
for the Lake street elevated road show a
loss of $79 per car. I mention these par
ticulars so that you may understand what
th company has done for the mutual in
terest and to secure for the people at Pull
man and 'vicinity the benefit of the dis
bursement of the large sums of money iv
v dved in these and similar contracts, which
can be kept up only by the procurement of
new orders for cars, for, as you know,
about three-fourths of the men must de
pend upon contract work for employment.
1 can only assure you that if this company
now restores the wages of the first half of
1893, as you have asked, it would be a
most unfortunate thing for the men, be
cause there are no less than sixty days of
contract work in sight in the shops under
ail orders, and there is absolutely no possi-
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bility, in the present condition of affairs
throughout the country, of geting any more
orders for work at prices measured by the
wages of May, 1893. Under such a scale
the works would necessarily close down
and the great majority of the employes be
put in Idleness, a contingency I am using
my best efforts to avoid.
Trying to Care for His Men.
“To further benefit the people of Pullman
and vioinity, we concentrated all the work
that we could command at that point by
closing our Detroit shops entirely, and lay
ing off a large number of men at other
repair shops, and gave to Pullman the re
pair of all cars that could be taken care of
there.
“Also, for the further benefit of our peo
ple at Pullman we have carried on a large
system of internal improvements, having
expended nearly SIOO,OOO since August last
in work which, under normal conditions,
would have been spread over one or two
y<ears. The policy would be to continue
this class of work to as great an extent
as possible, provided, of course the Pull
man men show a proper appreciation of the
situation by doing -whatever they can to
help themselves to tide over the hard
times, which are so seriously felt in every
part of the country.
“There have been some complaints made
about rents. As to this, I would say that
the return to this company of the capital
invested in the Pullman tenements for the
last year and the year before was 3.82 per
cent. There are hundreds of tenements in
Pullman renting from $6 to $9 per month,
and the tenants are relieved of the usual
expenses of the exterior cleaning and re
moving of garbage, which is done by the
company. The average amount collected
from employes for gas consumed is about
$2. a month. To ascertain the exact
amount of water consumed by the tenants,
separate from the amount consumed by
the works, we have recently put in me
ters, by which we find that the water
consumed by the tenants, if paid for at
the rate of 4 cents per 1,000 gallons, in
accordance with our original contract with
the village of Hyde Park, would amount
to about SI,OOO a month, almost exactly
the rate which we have charged the ten
ants, this company assuming the expenses
of pumping. At the increased rate the
city is now charging us for water, we are
paying about S6OO a month in excess of the
amount charged to the tenants. The pres
ent pay rolls at Pullman amount to about
$7,000 a day.
“On the question of rents, while, as stated
above, they made a manifestly Inadequate
return upon the investment, so that It is
clear they are not In fact at an arbitrarily
high figure, It may be added that it would
not be possible in a business sense so to
deal with them. The renting of the dwell
ings and the employment of workmen at
Pullman are in no way tied together. The
dwelling- and apartments are offered for
rent in competition wluh those of the im
mediately adjacent towns of Kensington,
Roseland and Gano. They are let alike to
Pullman employes and to very many others
in no way connected with the company,
and on the other hand many Pullman em
ployes rent or own their homes in those
adjacent towns. She average rental at
Pullman is at the rate of $3 per room per
month. There are 1,200 tenements of vary
ing numbers of rooms, the average month
ly rental of which Is $lO. Os these there
are 600 the average rental of which is SB.-
In very many cases men with families
pay a rent seemingly large for a work
man, but which in fact is reduced in part,
and pften wholly repaid, by -fh® subrent
paid by single men as lodgers.”
The Strike Decided Upon.
May 10th, the day after the second confer
ence above mentioned, work went on at
Pullman as usual, and the only incident
of note was the beginning by Mr. Wickes,
assisted by Mr. Brown, the general man
ager of the company, of, the promised
formal investigation at Pullman of the shop
complaints. A large meeting of employes
had been held the night before at Kensing
ton, which, as was understood by the com
p.m’y, «.< . tne -r cue '•’’.i-a-
tlon preventing an increase of wages; but at
a meeting of the local committee, held dur
ing the night of May 10th, a strike was de
cided upon, and accordingly the next day
about 2,500 of the employes quit work, leav
ing 600 at work, of whom very few were
skilled workmen. As it was found imprac
ticable to keep the shops in operation with
a. force thus diminished and disorganized,
the next day those remaining were necessa
rily laid off, and no work has since been
done in the shops.
The pay rolls at the time amounted to
about $7,000 a day, and were reduced $;>,500
by the strike, so that during the period of
a little more than six weeks which has
elapsed the employes who quit their work
have deprived themselves and their com
rades of earning more than $200,000.
Two Branches of the Business.
It is an element of the whole situation
worthy of note that at the beginning of
the strike the Pullman Savings bank had
on deposit in its savings department $488,000,
of which about nine-tenths belonged to em
ployes at Pullman, and that this amount
has since been reduced by the sum of $32,000.
While deploring the possibility of annoy
ance to the public by the threats of irre
sponsible organizations to interrupt the or
derly ministration to the comfort of travel
ers on railway lines aggregating 125,000 miles
in length, the Pullman company can do no
more than explai’- its situation to the public.
It has two separate branches of business,
essentially distinct from each other —one is
to provide sleeping cars, which are delivered
by it under contract to the various railway
companies to be run by them on their lines
as a part of their trains for the carriage of
their passengers, over the movement of
which this company has no control. Con
tract arrangments provide for the making
of all repairs to such cars by the railway
companies using them, as to certain re
pairs absolutely, and as to all others upon
the request of the Pullman company, which
ordinarily finds it most convenient to utilize
its own manufacturing facilities to make
such repairs. The other, and a distinct
branch of the business of the Pullman
company, is the manufacture for sale to
railway companies of freight cars and or
dinary passenger cars, and of street cars,
and this business is almost at a standstill
throughout the United States. The busi
ness of manufacturing cars for sale gives
employment to about 70 per cent of the shop
employes. The manufacture of sleeping
cars for use by railway companies under
contract, and which under normal condi
tions gives employment to about 15 per
cent of the shop employes, cannot be re
sumed by the company to a« important ex
tent for a very long time, for out of the
provision made for the abnormal travel
last year the company now has about four
hundred sleeping cars in store ready for
use, but for which there is no need in the
existing conditions of travel.
It is now threatened by the American Rail
way Union officials that railway compa
nies using Pullman sleeping cars shall be
compelled to deprive their passengers of
sleeping car accommodations unless the
Pullman company will agree to submit to
arbitration the question as to whether or
not it shall open its manufacturing shops at
Pullman and operate them under a scale
of wages which would cause a daily loss to
it of one-fourth the wages paid.
THE MADMAN
Wrote Threatening; Letters to Presi
dent and Mrs. tie vela nd.
Philadelphia, July 12.—-A wild-eyed luna
tic, thirty-live years old, Fred Max Toepfer,
was arrested at the instance of United
States Marshal Colesberry in this city to
day for having written threatening letters
to both President and Mrs. Cleveland. At
the Central station the prisoner admitted
that he had written four or five such let
ters. At first he said he applied for em
ployment at the white house.
Then failing in that he wrote the presi
dent that he “proposed to relieve him of
his job” and act as president himself. The
discovery of these writings came not from
the executive mansion or Gray Gables, but
from Dr. Bloomer, chief physician of the
state asylum for the insane at Utica, N.
Y.- to whom Toepfer had written of what
'he had done and proposed to do. Toepfer
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had been discharged from the asylum as
being cured. The doctor sent his letters to
secret service detectives, and the arrest
in this city followed.
SYMPATHY MEETING IN NEY YORK
Aildresaed by Henry George and Other
Speakers.
New York, July 12.—The labor demonstra
tion at Cooper Union tonight was one of
the' most extraordinary outpourings of peo
ple ever seen in this city. The meeting was
called* to express sympathy with the strikers
in Chicago and elsewhere in the west, and
as an expression of sympathy it was a de
decided success. The area in front of the
hall was filled after the hall could con
tain no more. It was a meeting which ex
pressed its convlcitnos in the loudest ways,
hissing and hooting the name of President
Cleveland so vehemently that Henry
George, who was speaking, had to cty,
“What’s ttw use?”
Daniel Harris, who presided, in a brief
speech, introduced Mr. George, who proved
the star speaker of the evening. He was
more than usually vehement in denuncia
tions of the use of federal troops to put
down the strikers. In the stand they took,
he said. Governor Altgeld and Governor
XVa’le were right, and the action of the
president in sending of troops was an arro
gant assumption of authority. He would
rather see all the railroad property ol the
country burned —ali railroads torn- up—than
see them preserved by force of arms. The
millionaires had made their money by rob
bery and debauchery, by the purchase of
■judges and legislatures, and now they want
ed to preserve them by the bayonets and
arms of federal troops, and foi that pur
pose tne rights of states were being en
croached upon by the federal authorities.
Then Mr. George entered into a lengthy
condemnation of president Cleveland, who
he said, from the first had taken the pait
of the capitalists against the strikers.
Every mention of the president’s name was
greeted with a storm of hisses.
Mr. George further condemned the presi
dent for his appointment of federal officers
in the west. “What are you going to do
about it?" he asked. “Impeach him!
shouted a voice. “Hang him! said an-
Nearlv everybody seemed to have a rem
edv Mr GeorgelSiowever, differed from all
th* Ir suggestions” He said that system
would have to be fundamentally changed.
The condition of the laborers could not b<
Improved by striking, because there was no
citv. town or hamlet in the country unere
there were not met to take the ploces ol
■strikers Trades unionism, with its w“tmon,
the strike. Is and always will be a failure.
Then, getting in a word in favor ot ms
pet theory. Mr. George said that the kej
to the labor question lay In the land ques
tion the destruction of monopolies and the
adoption of the single tax idea.
There were a few hisses at this, bnt thej
were drowned in the greater volume ot
cheers.
IS DEUS QUITE SANEf
His Physician Tells Him to Stop Now
to Save His Mind.
in h ?his n clty ‘under* treatment for dipsmn;i-
American Railway Union have doubts as
to Debs’s mental equilibrium, am that
Debs shares these d " ubts t hll ?T L ' f 'YoVk f<>"
si ret dial Debs, came to Nen Vo.k u ,
treatment at tne .lam.rf <-■ W. 1. ■
ertson, specialist In disorders of the neiv
ous system. He was a physical and ment
al wreck at the time. The intellectual foi<-t
--that he sometimes displayed in nls luc <
intervals had attracted the attention ot
several prominent men, and when he went
to Dr. Robertson he carried with him a
letter of introduction from Colonel Robert
Dr Robertson’s assistant in the absence
or the doctor said today: “I know that Mr.
Debs did come here from lerre Haute, and
that he brought a letter of introduction
signed by Cononel Robert G. Inge, soil, who
is a personal friend of Dr. Robertson. He
was treated fur neurasthenia and dlpsoma-
I *'“in what condition did Dr. Robertson find
him?" , .
“From what Dr. Robertson has told me
about the case 1 feel perfectly safe in say
ing that Mr. Debs was suffering from alco
holism in its most distressing form. He had
experienced an absolute loss of will power;
in Other words, he was non compos mentis.
After being under the care of Dr. Robertson
for several weeks, however, he returned to
Terre Haute apparently cured.”
“Is he a sound man mentally today?
Dr. Robertson’s assistant hesitated a
moment ami then replied: “1 can’t answei
that question directly, but I can show you
something that has bearing upon it.”
With these words he produced a telegraph
blank and remarked, “Here is a copy ot
a dispatch that was sent to Mr. Debs.”
The dispatch read as follows:
“As your friend and physician I implore
you to stop where you are. The condition
of your nervous system and the great strain
upon it makes you irresponsible for your
own orders. Yours in friendship,
“T. S. R.”
“So Mr. Debs has been in communication
with Dr. Robertson since the strike be
gan?”
“He has,” returned the assistant.
WHEN DEBS WAS AT DWIGHT.
He kail This Scheme Then in His
Mind.
Chicago, July 11.—A gentleman who was
a fellow patient at Dwight with Debs and
who took,the Keeley cure for drunkenness
at the same time says the agitator used
to brag much to his fellow patients of what
he was going to do some day for the work
ingmen of the country.
Debs graduated at the gold cure institute
March 10, 1892, but he has fallen from grace,
like many another Keeley graduate. This
fellow patient says:
“Debs, when in his cups or when talking
confidentially to his fellow patients at
Dwight, has never made any secret of his
ambitions, which were not to win for any
one class of workingmen or for working
men as a whole any especial scale cf wages
or any particular kind of treatment from
their employers, but simply to put the
working classes in control of the govern
ment of the country. This, of course, has
been the scarcely-veiled object of the pres
ent strike. It has not been a strike of
any given orders or classes of employes
against a certain number of employing
corporations; it has been a strike of the
lawless elements against constituted so
ciety—a r< volt of anarchy against law. It
is not difficult to see how a man—and es
pecially a man whose mental vision was
distorted by drunkenness —mig’ht dream
dreams of the possible success of such a
movement under the right conditions.
Where Debs’s line of thought seems to have
shown the characteristic indications of in
sanity is in his ridiculous miscalculation of
means to ends, his amazing misunderstand
ing of what were ‘right conditions,’ and
his incredible folly in believing that on
such a pretext as that on which the pres
ent strikes were inaugurated ho could win
any reasonable measure of the sympathy
of the large neutral mass of the public,
without whose sympathy success in any
revolutionary movement is hopeless.
“I have already commented upon what
has seemed the astonishing slowness of
the daily press of the country at large to
understand the drift of the disturbances
which have been in progress for so long in
the United States. It was not until all
pretense of concealment was thrown aside
and the strike appeared frankly as what it
was—an attempt at revolution—that the
daily press in general saw fit to treat it
seriously.”
Hl health gives
way to
Brown’s Iron
Bitters I
WOMEN IN THE STRIKE.
ACTI VE PAIiT THEY ARE TAKING IN
THE EAIiOR TROUBLES.
'J hey Heap Abuse on the Police—Little
Children Taught to Commit Acts of
Violence —Meth oils Employed.
From The Chicago Tribune.
The refrain of the old song runs: ‘ Men
must work and women must weep.”
But suppose the men won’t work. Still
women must weep, though many are just
now showing that they can “quit” their
part of the programme also and join the
strike.
What a varied part has woman been play
ing in the terrible scenes of the last week!
Here and there, everywhere, over the vast
network of railroads about Chicago, have
gathered the lawless mobs. “Strikers,
‘ rioters,” "lawless fiends” they have been
culled; but in all this the terrible words
have been aimed only at men. Can it be
that they have fallen upon the heads of
won tn? Look more closely among all these
surging' masses. Yes, more’s the pity, look
in the front rank of all this lawlessness; a
flutter of skirts is there; high, shrill voices,
rot from the throats of men, rise above
the deeper roar of baffled rage.
With the keys of their houses of discon
tent hung upon their wrists and their ba
bies on their arms or hanging to their
skirts, the women of the great strike fol
low down the tracks in the steps of their
husbands, guided by the yells and shouts
to the scenes < f action. Where great net
works of tracks cross each other at right
at gles near a quiet roundhouse a cattle
tn in is standing. The engine hisses threat
eningly', but moves not. The crowd jeers
and looks proudly down the tracks to
where freight cars are lying on their sides
barring the way. Soldiers of the United
States army with glistening bayonets sit
on the pilot of the engine. on
the tender and patroling regularly;' up and
down the sides, while at each cat's end
and on each side a soldier stands to guard
the coupling pins. Police officers are sta
tioned on the tops bf every car. And from
within the cattle low and call in restless
anxiety. Still the engine hisses threaten
ingly, still the crowd jeers.
Women to the Fore.
The women climb on knolls of ground, on
cinder heaps and piles of rock, on every
vantage point, to peer over the seething
mass of men. Gradually they push their
way into the throng, and their heads, cov
ered with blue-checked aprons or draped in
black shawls, give a strange setting to
the stern, hard faces beneath. Many girls,
with uncovered heads in all stages of frowsi
ness, are seen in the front line. Gaining
courage from the patience of the patrolling
boys in blue, these women of the strike
shriek their maddening taunts and are
wildly cheered by' the crowd. They press
nearer. Now something peers, wild-eyed
and excited, from maternal arms and the
folds of maternal skirts. Children are here;
even babes must go to swell a howling
mob. The women go beyond the guard line
and meet the order to go back with swift,
harsh words and curses of defiance.
Then comes a shrill little pipe from the
shadow of a skirt: "Scabs! Scabs!”
And the mass applauds. Still the train
does not move.
The cavalry goes forward to the obstruc
tions, but on its arrival produces no effect
upon the recumbent cars and the troopers
return amid the hoarse, triumphant cries
of the mob that follows. Farther down the
tracks an incoming train has slackened
speed in the press of the multitude. In
stantly it is surrounded and engineer and
firemen are dragged from their places. Tri
umphant yells and cries from men, women
and children rend the air. A woman, white
with wild excitement, lends her handker
chief. It is run up on a stick; a man climbs
upon the pilot and amid deafening cheers
an<l -li-'-'itc of the <lo«r -if SUrrerdcr
is fastened to the headlight of the engine.
The crowd thickens fast and becomes
more unwieldy. The patrol is brisker over
the tracks and the restraining pressure of
a bayonet is often felt.
But holding their babies close for shields,
the women still break past the patrol lines
and go where no man dares to step. Now
children follow and when a hjads
them off the crowd cries tauntingly:
“Shoot a kid, will you? Shoot a kid!”
And one man airs his mythological lore in
crying: "You’re a hero, you are! I think
I see your name engraved in the calendar
of Mars!”
< hlldren in the Rioters’ Ranks.
The children are steeped with the pois
onous spirit of insurrection. Each demon
stration of it is cheered to the echo by
the mass of kindred souls. From down the
tracks wild shrieks and yells come nearer
and nearer. Then a stolen bandcar comes
in view, loaded with these little heirs of
promise, waving flags and yelling derisive
epithets and curses. The cruel features
of their mothers and granddames light up
with savage delight; and not to be outdone
by their offspring they add their volley of
curses to the boys in blue and their hearty
praise' to the wee rioters.
An aged crone, with straggling locks of
white, hobbles through the line and vents
her wrath upon the guard in a string of
black, ugly words. Respect for the aged is
a sentiment rooted well in the heart of
every American man, and this only It is
that makes the deputy rest his hand In
firmness upon her'shoulder as he urges het
back. In another center of excitement the
cavalry ranges across the track in advance
of a train that is hurriedly made up and
the infantry forms in the space between,
driving all trespassers from the line.
A building close beside the fracks is shin
gled with excited small boys. Bayonets
presented at the edge of the roof cause
them to tumble quickly off, sliding down
the eaves spouts and disappearing in space.
One ragged brown cap comes slowly up
over the ridgepole, after the roof is cleared,
and an urchin finally perches himself hesi
tatingly on the edge, ready to slide out of
sight at the first intimation that cavalry
can climb. Farther down an empty ear on
the sidetrack has an irregular, mottled
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pear on the tracks with shouts of derision,
copied from their elders. A final rush along
the linfe from the soldiers and policemen
put them to flight. The bugle sounds. There
is a feeble shout of bravado from beneath
the ragged brown cap on the roof. It drops
out of sight. And the train pulls out.
Here and there men are even teaching
their children the fiendish work of firing
cars, themselves drawing the guards’ atten
tion while the boys swarm on the tracks
to do their bidding. And when the blackness
of night gives its shadowy protection the
forms that creep about the yards and apply
the burning brands are not those of men
alone, but of women and children, too—ac
tive, eager, wild and vengeful.
A woman’s voice is raised in aw'ful mo
ments with no quality of mercy in it. It
was a woman who wildly screamed “Lynch
him!” when a deputy marshal shot into a
furious crowd trying to overpower him. It
was a woman that urged on the man who
leaped to the engine of the milk train,
pulled the throttle wide, and sent the engine
dashing into the overturned freight car. It
was at a woman’s instigation that the cars
at Burnside were fired.
The babies must sleep when they can and
as they can on the restless maternal should
ers. The hearths in the homes are cold, for
the mothers are away and only the red
light of anarchy is there.
Women of the Strike, Not in It.
But not all of womanhood found drifting
in these lawless mobs is of the sort that
sinks to its level. Women are there, in sober
garments and with serious faces. With
them are their husbands, quiet and thought
ful. Both have been caught in the whirl
pool, and behold in consternation the wreck
and ruin wrought before them. Brought to
the scene by the tie of common interest
that cruelly links their fate with that of
lower natures, they turn from it all in
pain to seek their homes under the shadow
of a lawlessness not their own.
Over the fields of waving grass and
clover, over the little garden plots and
rows of stately holyhocks, and over the
homes about the town where the deserted
car shops are, a great quiet reigns, like
the full golden days of autumn when the
harvest is reaped and the summer’s work is
done; but here it is a different season, it
is but. the quiet of “the winter of our dis
content.” Here are women in sorrow and
in need; but, with a care for their homes,
they strive to make a scanty portion of
food do for as many hungry mouths as
their family may number. They bear no
burning brands of fire; they are not teach
ing little ones, by precepts and examples,
the deadly lessons of evil that will blight
the good in each young life.
There are women in the strike, but not
of it. In it, by the sufferings they bear,
by the obstacle that this monster has placed
between them and duty and loved ones.
Wives and mothers are kept from the sick
beds of their loved ones.
And now a little woman is In jail for
shooting the man who assaulted her hus
band on his way to work for their needy
family. The assailant was the more power
ful. The plucky little woman fired and
then, of course, promptly fainted. She re
covered to find the aggressor dead, her
husband in the hospital, and herself in jail.
A sad page in the history of these days
is the story of the women and children of
the great strike.
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RACE AVAR IN THE NORTH.
Armed Negroes March Upon a Town
and Ace Repulsed.
Scottdale, Pa., July 9. —One hundred armed
negroes marched into Scottdale today. They
eta ried revolvers and clubs. When Burgess
Robinson ordered (hem to disperse they
opened fire on him. The burgess called a
number of citizens to his assistance, and a
general riot ensued. The negroes ran, pur
sued by 1,000 citizens. Fully 200 shots were
fired.
Two negroes were shot—one fatally—and
others were badly beaten.
The negroes escaped to Fayette county
and went to McClure’s works, where they
are said to be recruiting forces preparatory
to making another attack on the town.
The W'ildpst excitement prevails,
Ihe burgess has asked the citizens to
arm themselves to repel the anticipated at
tack. One of the negroes, who was shot in
the head, was brought to Scottdale. Threats
of lynching are heard on all sides. The
Sons of Veterans, armed with rifles, have
been called out and are on guard at the
lock-up.
The negroes are headed by Sanford White,
superintendent of the McClure Coke Com
pany. They are now at the city limits and
an armed body of citizens have just gone
to meet them. A battle is expected In a
short time .
ERASTUS WIMAN’S CASE.
Jfudge Barrett Granta a Certificate of
Reasonable Doubt.
New York, July 12.—Judge Barrett, of
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